[statecom-discuss] [Platform] So to repeat myself but can we have all Advisory Ballot meeting notes?

[Mike Heichman]

Hi Merelice,

I was the one who brought this up at yesterday's meeting. I thought that 
the discussion went very well.

To express my opinions about the questions that you posed to Grace:

1. I don't think that it would be necessary (and probably inappropriate) 
to publish the minutes of MAAPL (or any other coalition that we are 
working with). What would have been appropriate would have been for the 
Rainbow Caucus to have kept those of us informed by e-mail and by having 
regular meetings of our work with MAAPL, which hasn't been done. I 
recently sent an e-mail to the Caucus requesting that we have a meeting 
very soon.

2. Grace has been a member of the Platform Committee for quite some time 
and I think that it is very appropriate for her to communciate with her 
fellow committee members. (Also, the Co-Chair of the Platform Committee, 
had missed yesterday's meeting.)

3. I want to thank Dan for sending this out to both State Committee and 
the Platform Committee.

4. I was motivated by these communications to send a similar letter to 
the CDLC. Neither of our co-chairs had been present at yesterday's meeting.

5. I personally see nothing personal, hostile or inappropriate about 
these communications.

Mike Heichman


Merelice wrote:

>Hi Grace,
>
>Are you suggesting we make MAAPL (Mass Alliance Against Predatory
>Lending) take and post minutes when we discuss the predatory lending
>ballot language? Just wondering.
>
>By the way, at the StateCom orientation yesterday, we described the
>difference between how each statecom email list gets used. Although
>there were ballot question proposals passed at the statecom meeting, I
>don't recall hearing a statecom question that formally required a
>response from the Platform Committee. So perhaps your followup would
>more appropriately have been put on the statecom discuss list instead
>of the official business list.
>
>Thanks,
>Merelice
>
>
>On 4/13/08, Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com <Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com> wrote:
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>>hi, Platform Folks - Iti s clear that work has been done on choosing focuses
>> for Advisory Ballot Questions and that language has ben worked on - thanks for
>> that work.
>>
>> And clearly, meetings have been held to come up with Advisory Ballot question
>> language - decisions were asked for at Statecom yesterday and we still have
>> no notes published of the meetings (whether of the whole platform committee or
>> sub-groups) - please post these so we know what is happening?
>>
>> Thanks in advance, Grace
>>
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